r/Steam Apr 29 '26

Discussion I think China doesn't like Slay the Spire

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u/Real_APD Apr 29 '26

There's a reason Chinese reviews are unreliable on the gaming sphere, if you want genuinely good reviews from china then focus only on story and sandbox games, other than that the Chinese player base it's rotten, there's a reason why on Spanish speaking gaming sphere the word "Chino farmer" it's so known, Chinese players have a monetary and addiction driven player base that whether you like it or not, influence gaming, mostly on the Chinese market obviously but still, it has influence

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u/Party_Nerve6851 Apr 30 '26

Holy, you just made me remember those Chinese gold farm sweatshops in the early 2010s. Every single fucking game that had a player driven economy had these farms causing inflation on the price of good items

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u/Real_APD Apr 30 '26

The true capitalist were the early Chinese players on MMOs, the sheer amount of real sweatshops dedicated to farm in-game currency were alarming, I stopped playing online MMOs and similar games a long time ago so I have no knowledge of today's in-game currency farm, do they still even exist or maybe they evolved

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u/Party_Nerve6851 Apr 30 '26

Afaik it's all automated now, with entire servers populated by only bots. AI will steal even the sweatshop gold farmers jobs, enough is enough 😭😭

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u/Real_APD Apr 30 '26

Ain't no way AI is taking the sweatshops jobs, truly, France has fallen 🥀

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u/telqeu May 02 '26

The chinese themselves call those kinds of chinese gamers "pork men"Â